You will get a little bit longer battery life with AACs compared to similarly sized mp3s because AAC takes less power to decode, but the real world difference is fairly negligible.…

Thank you for all the replies...I am just gonna keep them as MP3 files...The thing that really bothers me is that, Apple states that, the battery should last up to 14 hours and the…

Quote: Originally Posted by thiagofll then what should I do to reach 14 hrs of battery life? Don't watch videos, leave the backlight off as long as possible.

If you're getting 4-5 hours of battery life without doing a lot of skipping around or using the backlight, there's something wrong with your battery. Try doing a test where you jus…

I've found, using up all the power from the batt. and recharging it to full will improve the batt. I was in the same position so I left it on for however long, made sure it couldn'…

Another update, I came across the audio format OGG, what the hell is that? Is OGG better then MP3 and ACC in sound quality standards? Like thiagofll said earlier, would it be bett…

Quote: Originally Posted by F*ckDell Another update, I came across the audio format OGG, what the hell is that? Is OGG better then MP3 and ACC in sound quality standards? Like …

Your best course of action is to stop thinking about converting your mp3s to any other format. Any re-encoding will result in either further quality loss or much larger file sizes.…

Converting MP3 to AAC (or any other format) is like making a color copy of a Xeroxed page. While a color copy is theoretically capable of showing a lot more than a B&W Xerox, i…

I have another train of thought. If you also have another music player besides the iPod, you might wanna consider using mp3. I have one of those standalone DVD players that can al…

Quote: Originally Posted by thiagofll Thank you for all the replies...I am just gonna keep them as MP3 files...The thing that really bothers me is that, Apple states that, the b…

Well, one thing to do is to go to Settings > Backlight Timer > 2 seconds. The backlight will drain the battery. If you leave it to "Always On', that will more than halve you…

as a former ipod engineer for HP, and current admin/ mod for an fairly big ipod site... i would first do the following perform a restore using the current version of the updater …

I just bought the Apple's universal dock for my old 20GB iPod (monochrome). I bought this primarily to connect to my home theater - it all works great. But is there a way I can see…

Can some iPod Guru help me with this?

None of the iPods will show the menu on the screen, even the new video-enabled iPods. The TV connection on the dock is for pictures & video only. There is however a third-part…

Ok I have a 3 month old 2 gig nano. I have the backlight set to 15 seconds. I change songs every 15 minutes or so. What should be approximate battery for this concidering my usage …

I have a quickcam on USB port and a camcorder on FireWire port...How can I switch from one to another without having to disconnect the quickcam + extension. The quickam takes the v…

I wanted a clean install with my macbook pro, so I booted of the (intel) Macbook Pro OS X disc, and formatted with disc utility, but now the Installer says it can't install onto th…

It's exactly like this, except it's the only hard disk in my computer the internal sata drive, so what gives? I can't install OS X on my computers hard disk? http://docs.info.appl…

Have you tried actually partitioning? And there really is no option of choosing the file system type in disk utility?

Quote: Originally Posted by inkhead It's exactly like this, except it's the only hard disk in my computer the internal sata drive, so what gives? I can't install OS X on my comp…

Don't really understand Inkhead, my MBP came with a fresh install... Try again, maybe you got a power spike or sunspots or something the first time. If it booted OK out of the box,…

I do have corsair ram, however regardless of anything it's absolutely retarted that apple would CLAIM there is an option that randomly HIDES itself or just doesn't exist based on R…

Less techie people do not do a clean restore when they purchase a machine from any maker. Can't believe you did it 35 times!!! I suspect you will continue to have many problems. I …